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Mission Statement:
Our purpose is encouraging, loving, and supporting a diverse group of people who gather to deepen their experience of the inner light of God. We direct this inner light outward in service to others to share the love of Christ.
**Following the teachings of the Living Christ, we are an open, loving, and affirming community.
We believe that God’s Light is inherent within all people. There are no exceptions.**
Category Archives: Messages
The God Who Roars
In the middle of God’s indignation God hesitates, with parental love doubting how he can give this one he loves over to punishment. God is at once judgment and grace, destruction and life. One of the things that makes this … Continue reading →
Embracing Mary, Affirming Martha
In this brief vignette, common courtesy would expect Jesus to affirm the one who welcomes him and his followers into her home and prepares all that is needed to make them comfortable. Our instincts tell us that Mary should … Continue reading →
…for you we always give thanks to God…
”…for you we always thank God.’ How Paul tells us he prays for the people of the Colossian church gives us a wonderful inside look at his heart. What he says about his praying for these people gives us … Continue reading →
An Unsuspected Missionary Evangelist
From a classical perspective missionaries are those who are sent out as announcers of God’s grace. In a very real sense they are evangelists. These missionary evangelists that go as Jesus’ representatives in Luke 10 are told to declare that … Continue reading →
The Only Thing That Matters
Living by the flesh involves a life focused on the self and its needs above all else. We seek to satisfy our desires by consumption and control, rather than relationship and care. The obvious examples of living by the flesh … Continue reading →
Elijah’s Mountain Top Experience
It seems that God doesn’t respond to exaggerated claims of self-importance. Rather Elijah is instructed to go out and stand on the mountain before Yahweh. Placing yourself before God sometimes has a way of putting things in perspective.
Two Extraordinarily Different Lives
Forgiveness is unconditional or it is not forgiveness at all. For the sinner, forgiveness has the character of “in spite of,”. For the righteous forgiveness is endowed with the character of “because.” Unlike the righteous, sinners cannot transform the “in … Continue reading →
Compassionate Intercession
For the first time in the Old Testament we have a new story form, a prophetic narrative that describe in speech and deeds the work of the Prophet. The stories of Elijah are the first to use such a literary … Continue reading →
Access
William Loader says that Paul emphasizes that nothing should clutter the simplicity of our relationship with God. There are no hidden hurdles that we must clear or qualifications we must achieve. It is an unconditional love which greets us – … Continue reading →
Pentecost – The Wild Goose
Because the Celtic Church was never infected with a dualistic outlook on creation, they did not see matter as evil, nor the spiritual world as divorced from the material. They looked on Creation around them as one great hymn of … Continue reading →
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